click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Scarlett unit #1
due thurs. 8/31 - 12:00 * unit 1 vocab
Term | Definition |
---|---|
Jamestown | the first successful and permanent English colony in North America |
jointstock | group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony |
john smith | A person that helped jamestown survive with a leadership |
john rolfe | the person that introduced tobacco growing in jamestown, made it successful |
indentured servant | a person that agrees to work for 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to america, given freedom and land at the end of their contract |
powhatan | group of native americans that helped and also fought with the jamestown settlers |
pocahontas | daughter of native american chief that helped jamestown settlers |
house of burgesses | first representative government in north america, located in virginia colony |
seperatists | also called the pilgrims, wanted to break from the church of england |
plymouth | name of the colony that the separatists established for religious freedom |
mayflower compact | government of the pilgrims that the set up majority rule in their colony |
squanto | native american that helped pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique |
puritans | religious group that wanted to stay in the church of england and reform it |
masachussetts bay | the name of the colony that the puritans established |
theocracy | type of government in which religious leaders make the law |
john winthrop william bradford | governor of massachusetts bay, leader of the puritans governor of plymouth, leaders of the pilgrims |
city on a hill | name of a speech given by john winthrop that says Massachusetts will be an example of religious faith and hard work |
thomas hooker | founder of the connecticut colony |
roger williams | the founder of rhode island, wanted peace with native americans |
rhode island | the first colony that established religious freedom |
anne hutchens | women that challenged the leadership of massachusetts bay by holding her own church meetings |
new netherlands | dutch colony that would become new york, encouraged tolerance |
quakers | religious group that settled pennsylvania and believed in equality between men and women, that slavery was evil, and that they could experience God through an "inner light" |
first great awakening | religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s ; a revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches |
george whitefield | famous preacher in the first great awakening that traveled all over the colonies |
jonathan edwards | the first great awakening preacher who preached the sermon sinners in the hands of an angry god |
middle passage | the journey slaves took from africa to the americas |
triangular trade | a network of trading between the americas, europe, and africa exchanging raw material manufactured goods and slaves |
mercantilism | the economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured goods to its colonies in exchange for raw materials |
georgia | founded as a buffer colony and a place for the poor to work off their debts |
debtor | a person that owes money to another |
james oglethorpe | founder of georgia colony |
cash crops | crops that are sold to make profits in a global market |
overt resistance | ways in which slaves fought back that were obvious; they ran away or led a rebellion against their owners |
passive resistance | ways slaves resisted slavery that were not obvious; they slowed down work, broke equipment, faked illnesses |
navigational acts | laws passed by parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only england benefitted ( colonies could only trade with great Britain) |
william penn | leader of the quakers that signed a treaty with the native americans |
france | catholic nation that colonized america to profit off the fur trade with natives |